P players, do you ever feel limited by one pup?

My first bass was the Squier MB 4. I bought it back then because I liked the look of the bass (i was a teenage punk kid at the time) and needed something affordable. As I got older and became more familiar with basses and guitars, I found that I loved the shape of P basses and strats the most.

But I could never enjoy a regular P bass. I always felt as if I was limited tonally and that a regular P lacked versatility. I really needed a second pickup in any bass id used in order to get more variety. Never mind that I feel the bass looks naked with only 1 pickup.

So to the P bass players, do you ever feel limited by 1 pickup despite loving your P tone?

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Never. It is that single PU in that sweetspot that gives that lovely tone. The tone knob does it's job well at giving me what i need and lastly, i love that i can vary the feel and tone of what i play just by adjusting right hand position.

Well, I don't consider myself a veteran player by any means but....I feel like the P bass is unique in that it's inherently sensitive to hand/picking placement. You can get such a variety of tonal changes with even the slightest position change. YMMV, but that's been my experience with P basses.

I have never felt limited by a Precision. As others have already said, between the tone control and varying your technique there are many tones to be had from this bass. Then there are the other variables to throw in, such as strings and amps, that there is always something more to discover or pull out of a Precision. It is much more than a "one trick pony".

No, because between technique and that one tone knob I feel I can get as great a range of tones out of it as any bass.

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pretty much this. I have used my P bass for pretty much every genre except electronica/techno etc (only cause I have never been asked to...) and no one said a (bad) thing....well, about the tone at least. Me playing certain genres is another story

And, maybe it's just me, but I hear two-pickup basses as kind of "blurry"... like two people talking in unison, with some frequencies sorta cancelling each other a bit and some being over-emphasized. It just sounds less "clear" to my ears than one single pickup.

These days I only play P's (a Lak 35" P5, a '78 P fretless and an AVRI '62 P). I'm considering a Lull PJ5 but I'm not sure I need the extra pup. Between the tone knob and right hand technique (where you pluck the string, whether you use a pick or not), there is a lot of variation available.

And of course, single p/u's don't only apply to P basses.
Anthony Jackson certainly doesn't regard any of his Foderas limiting because of their single p/u's. In fact, just the opposite - and then they don't have volume or tone pots either!

Ok, so that's an extreme example, but It all comes down to classic good design. That applies not only to P basses but Stingrays too.